should animals be used for research essayPaulius Norvila is a twenty-seven year old poet from Lithuania whose first collection, Septyni Metų Laikai (“Seven Seasons”), was well received when it was published in Vilnius in 2006. His second collection of poetry was released this year.

http://mi-insite.com/home-phone-call-blocker/Rimas Uzgiris‘ poetry has been published in Atlanta Review, 322 Review, Lituanus, Prime Number Magazine, The Poetry Porch, inter|rupture, Umbrella, Literary Laundry, riverbabble, Quiddity, The Four Quarters Magazine, The Drunken Boat, Druskininkai Poetic Fall 2012 (anthology), and is forthcoming in Barrow Street, Hudson Review, The Lilliput Review, The Literary Bohemian, Per Contra, Presa Magazine and The Waiting Room Reader: Stories to Keep You Company (anthology). His translations have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Spork Press, Modern Poetry in Translation, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Two Lines Online, The Brooklyner, Lituanus, The Drunken Boat, Druskininkai Poetic Fall 2012, and are forthcoming in AGNI and The Iowa Review. His book reviews have been published in HTML Giant, Rumpus, Words Without Borders and Post Road. His fiction appeared in Writer’s Abroad: Foreign Encounters Anthology. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and received an MFA in creative writing from Rutgers-Newark University, where he studied poetry with Rigoberto Gonzalez and Rachel Hadas, and fiction with Tayari Jones. He received a Fulbright Scholar Grant to teach at Vilnius University, Lithuania in 2013.